Crime scene: hands up, Mr. Trimmel!
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Hands up, Mr. Trimmel! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 112 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | May 4, 1980 on ARD |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carlheinz Caspari |
| script | Friedhelm Werremeier |
| production | Jürgen Böttcher |
| music | Graziano Mandozzi |
| camera |
Gerd Thieme , Axel Svoboda |
| cut |
Wolfgang Skerhutt , Maria Jonderko |
| occupation | |
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Hands up, Mr. Trimmel! is a German television thriller by NDR and was broadcast on German television on May 4, 1980. It is the 112th episode of the crime series Tatort and the tenth case of Chief Inspector Paul Trimmel , played by Walter Richter . Trimmel is dealing with an unknown male corpse and the solo efforts of his difficult assistant Höffgen.
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Trimmel and his team are called to the site of an almost skeletonized corpse, which had been lying there for months. Trimmel's assistant Kriminalhauptmeister Höffgen is meanwhile on duty through the Hamburg night scene and makes the acquaintance of the newly divorced Helga Martini, who belongs to the "better" society. Höffgen goes with Helga, who confesses to Höffgen that she is a fraud. She separated from her husband Klaus and took maintenance from him, then she married a new man. Before the marriage he wanted DM 150,000 for a good deal from her, and she should have her husband pay her for it. She agreed, but married before the contract was signed, so that at the time the contract was signed she would no longer have been entitled to the money. Her new husband, Charles Schriller, was a marriage fraud who disappeared with the money and claimed to have speculated on the money. When she threatened to report him, he threatened her that she was involved in cheating on her ex-husband and that he would then also report her. Höffgen can determine that the police are looking for him as a marriage fraud in various cases.
Meanwhile, Trimmel learns that the male corpse is around 50 years old and has been dead for at least three months; his right ring finger had been cut off. A deformed projectile was found in the skull, the caliber can no longer be clearly determined. Trimmel is also furious about the lack of discipline of his assistant Höffgen the night before, but he assigns the case to him. Höffgen determines that the body is a Max Prange from Kassel, but keeps this knowledge to himself. He suspects blackmail by the murder victim as the motive. He promises his new friend Helga that during his investigation in Kassel he will also take care of her fugitive marriage impostor and try to lure him into a trap. Trimmel now distrusts his assistant and correctly suspects that a woman could be behind his behavior. He puts Petersen on his friend, who doesn't like to agree. Höffgen seeks out Prange's wife in Kassel; meanwhile, Prange's friend, the early retiree Franz Rossko, lives with her. Höffgen informs Rossko about Prange's death, who, when asked, admits that his friend had confessed to extortion in the past, but Prange's wife knows nothing about it. Rossko promises Höffgen to ask around whether his friend has recently been active in this regard.
Petersen finds out the name of Höffgen's new friend from Gründler, the host of the party at which Höffgen met Helga Martini, and does research about her. In the meantime, Höffgen has found Schriller in Frankfurt, who is now called Lautenbach. Back in Kassel, he meets with Rossko, who actually found out that a fur trader had driven from Kassel to Hamburg the day after Prange's disappearance. Prange extorted Fritz Weinrich, because Prange knew that Weinrich had hairdos for stolen furs in the past so that he could sell them legally. Just a week later, after a minor accident, Weinrich had his car scrapped and bought a new one. Rossko suspects that Weinrich had transported Prange's body in the trunk to Hamburg and wanted to cover it up. Prange had a weapon, it could have been the weapon used against himself. Höffgen learns from Helga that her ex-husband has a hunting lodge near Kassel. Höffgen disinforms his superior Trimmel and writes a report that Charles Schriller was the corpse. He plans to lure Weinrich and Schriller to Martini's hunting lodge and play them off against each other so that he can blackmail both of them. He calls Schriller, poses as Weinrich and wants DM 250,000 from him for his marriage swindles, he has to sell him explanations from the women who have been cheated on, that Schriller is not the marriage swindle he is looking for. Then he calls Weinrich and asks him about Prange. He pretends to be a shrill and tells him that he knows about Prange's murder, he demands DM 150,000 from him. Trimmel's new assistant Stiller and Petersen meanwhile ponder Höffgen's report and discover inconsistencies. Stiller it seems strange that the dead man is supposed to be the new husband of Höffgen's new girlfriend.
Trimmel and Stiller look to Helga when she is on the phone with Höffgen as he is preparing the blackmail in the hunting lodge. The officials tell Helga on the head that Höffgen is planning a private campaign of revenge against Schriller. You can persuade Helga to tell them about Höffgen's plan. After the attempt to reach Höffgen by phone fails, the officers take Helga there to prevent worse things from happening. In the meantime Schriller and Weinrich arrive at the country house, Höffgen hides from the two. Weinrich and Schriller meet in the hunting lodge, the two consider each other to be blackmailers, as planned by Höffgen, when Schriller draws a gun, Weinrich is faster and shoots Schriller in the shoulder, then he accuses Schriller of killing Prange, he, Weinrich I have paid Prange a lot of money and now I am not going to be blackmailed again by a friend of Prange. At this moment, Höffgen intervenes, he finds newspaper in Schriller's money case, and DM 100,000 in Weinrich's. Weinrich assures Höffgen that he handed over the money to Prange and that he left alive. At this moment Trimmel and Stiller reach the hunting lodge, Trimmel goes in, the masked Höffgen threatens his superior with a weapon. When Stiller arrives, Trimmel can disarm Höffgen, Stiller prevents Höffgen from unmasking. Weinrich admits his fur manipulation, but denies the murder of Prange, meanwhile Höffgen flees with the approval of Trimmel and Stiller. He drives to his Kassel colleagues to find out about Weinrich's accident a few months ago, where he finds out that the accident was serious and that Weinrich's car was actually a total write-off.
Höffgen seeks out Frau Prange, who finally admits that she knew about her husband's blackmail and that her husband was murdered. Rossko told her that he drove to blackmail with Prange, Prange had received no money, but was shot and died in Rossko's arms. Prange told Rossko as he was dying that he should take care of his wife. Rossko came to her and handed her a prange wedding ring. Thus Rossko is convicted because Prange's ring finger had been cut off. Rossko arrives and Höffgen arrests him and takes the pistol with which this Prange shot. With his testimony in court, Höffgen ensures the conviction of Rossko as a murderer, and Trimmel then wants to stand up for Höffgen with the Interior Senator.
Audience and background
When it was first broadcast, the episode reached 16.07 million viewers and thus a market share of 48.00%. It was shot in September and October 1979 in Hamburg and the surrounding area and in Bonn.
criticism
TV Spielfilm rated the film positively and judged: "Faster than" Flieges "later appearances".
Web links
- Hands up, Mr. Trimmel! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hands up, Mr. Trimmel! at filmportal.de
- Summary of the plot of hands up, Mr. Trimmel! on the ARD website
- Hands up, Mr. Trimmel! at the crime scene fund
- Hands up, Mr. Trimmel! at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the crime scene: Hands up, Mr. Trimmel! Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Hands up, Mr. Trimmel! at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on June 24, 2015.
- ↑ Hands up, Mr. Trimmel! Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on June 24, 2015.
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